USB Passthrough?

[ballo]

Hello. I need to use a wifi USB device which, of course, there are no MacOS drivers for. In fact, I don't think there are any Apple Silicon wifi drivers for ANY external wifi device.

Does Apple's virtualization either support USB Passthrough? If not, do we have the tools available to implement it? I only need USB and some kind of network bridge for "Host Only" networking so I can use the VM as the gateway. Copy & paste would be of great help, too, but not necessary.

[fearlipe]

I'd like USB passtrought for iPhone development...

[ccashman]

I'll throw another vote in for some sort of USB pass-through.

I have an Arduino board, and the toolchain that the Arduino IDE uses is not fully Apple Silicon compatible, so at the moment it requires Rosetta. I don't want to install Rosetta on my main system, so VB potentially provided an answer. Unfortunately, the Arduino board connects through USB, so without pass-through, I can't use the VB VM for the Arduino toolchain as I had hoped.

[insidegui]

Everything I could find suggests that this is not yet supported by Virtualization.

There is a USB-related entitlement documented in Apple's docs, but it doesn't seem to enable any sort of passthrough.

Here are the references I found:

• Issue in UTM
• Parallels Documentation

[ccashman]

There’s always macOS 15…

[ballo]

Unfortunately, UTM's USB support is buggy and I wouldn't recommend it unless you want data corrupted.